Senior Security Engineer, Forward Deployed
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Requirements
• Senior FDSE operator who can set the operating model and deliver hands-on customer outcomes. As part of the founding team, you’ll build playbooks, set delivery standards, and create feedback loops. You’ll help onboard and uplevel new FDSEs through pairing, reviews, and shared playbooks. • Track record shipping high-quality products and features at scale and driving measurable customer outcomes (years flexible; 5+ preferred). • Strong Python or Go, with the ability to scope, build, debug, and ship quickly in production customer environments. • Strong customer presence and cross-functional leadership across Customer Success, GTM, Product, and Engineering, with sound tradeoff judgment under pressure. • End-to-end systems fluency across ingestion, parsing, APIs, integrations, permissions, and workflow automation. • Founder or early-stage (first 10 engineers) experience; thrives in ambiguity and ships fast. • Experience in security operations, detection engineering, or incident response. • Familiarity with LLMs, prompt engineering, or agentic workflows. • Experience with SIEM/SOAR tools, telemetry pipelines, or alert classification systems. • Background building or maintaining API integrations or security connectors. • Our Culture • We provide great benefits, meaningful equity, and a fun, inspiring environment. Our values are: • Customer Centricity: We place customers at the core of our decisions. • Customer Centricity: • Practicality over Perfection: We value efficient solutions and agile decision-making. • Practicality over Perfection: • Strive for Excellence: We are committed to high standards and continuous improvement. • Strive for Excellence: • Transparent Communication: We encourage open, honest dialogue and trust. • Transparent Communication: • Have Fun: We foster a positive environment that balances hard work with enjoyment. • Have Fun: • Environment • Prophet Security takes pride in being an equal-opportunity employer. We value a diverse and global talent pool and the collaboration that results from having a diverse and inclusive team. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status. Our hiring decisions are based exclusively on merit, qualifications, and business needs.
Responsibilities
• Own end-to-end technical delivery for prospective and existing customers, from requirements through shipped outcomes across rollout, adoption, long-tail support, and expansion. • Partner with Customer Success, GTM, and Engineering to remove blockers fast, align on scope and tradeoffs, and keep execution moving. • Connect and validate customer security telemetry end-to-end, from ingestion and parsing through downstream workflows and outcomes. • Build rapid prototypes, integrations, and workflows for customer-specific needs, then harden the best solutions into reusable deliverables. • Ship code and configuration changes across APIs, permissions, integrations, and notification workflows to improve reliability and time-to-value. • Debug and reproduce issues, fix inconsistencies in data and integration behavior, and drive feedback to Product and Engineering with root cause, fix recommendations, and success criteria. • What We’re Looking ForThis is a senior IC role (no people management). You’ll lead through execution, technical standards, and operational rigor.
Benefits
• Employee compensation will be determined based on interview performance, level of experience, specialization of skills, and market rate. During the offer discussion, your recruiter will review the finalized base salary, bonus (for applicable roles), benefits & perks, and stock options as they’ll be reflected in the offer letter.